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Honouring unifying icons
Broader
Preserving common religion
Worshipping-Idolizing
Honouring-Dishonouring
Narrower
Sustaining sacred sociality
Signifying natural mysteries
Celebrating cosmic realities
Facilitates
Recalling stories of human struggle for meaning
Providing ritual symbols
Providing reminders of final reality
Providing raw materials for social myths
Providing concrete medium for living out belief
Introducing new aspects of social reality
Facilitated by
Experiencing religious symbolism through rites
Endowing religious symbols with meaning
Demanding concrete symbols of belief
Constrains
Grounding myths in reality
Focusing attention on living out belief
Blocking degeneration to sterile ceremony
Constrained by
Recalling ultimate context of religious symbolism
Defining form of religious belief
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